\chapter{Personal and Skills Development}

\section{Participation in Conferences and Workshops}

\begin{itemize}
\item Poster presentation at the 3rd Annual EECS Postgraduate Conference at QMUL on June 27, 2011 
\item Volunteered at AES 130th Convention, May 13-16, 2011 held in London, UK
\begin{itemize}
\item[$\star$]Music and Semantic Web Workshop
 \item[$\star$]Bounce to App Workshop
\end{itemize} 
\item Attended Digital Music Research Network Workshop at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL), December 21, 2010
\item Attended Machine Listening Workshop at QMUL, December 20, 2010
\end{itemize} 
	
\section{Participation in Relevant Industry Exhibitions and Seminars}

During my first year at Queen Mary University of London, I attended a number of industry exhibitions and seminars. Some were relevant to working with Music, others to designing systems and products using audio technology. The detail of the attended seminars and events is presented in Table \ref{table:seminars}

\begin{sidewaystable}
\caption{Participation in Relevant Industry Exhibitions and Seminars}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{l p{7.5cm} l p{2 cm} l l l}
\hline\hline
Sr.\# &Training Topic & Date & Organisation  & Trainer  & Proficiency & Hours \\ [0.5ex]
\hline
1& Using Music Ontology in Music Mash2 Seminar & 07/12/2010 & C4DM & Dr. E. Thomas & Good & 2 \\
2& Lyrics-to-Audio Alignment: Methods of Integrating Textual Chord Labels and an Application & 02/02/2011 & C4DM & Dr. M. Mauch & Good & 1 \\
3&Semantic Audio and Semantic Web in MIR and Music Production & 08/02/2011 &  C4DM& Dr. D.Tidhar & Good & 1\\
4& Personalised Interactive Broadcasting Event & 18/02/2011 & ImpactQM, DKTCN & Prof. E. Robinson & Good & 4 \\
5&Computational Recognition of Singing Voices in Polyphonic Music based on Statistical Approach & 22/02/2011 & C4DM & Dr. H. Fujihara & Good & 1 \\
6&Context-Based Similarity & 02/03/2011 & C4DM &Dr.M Schedl & Good & 3 \\
7&Co-occurrence-based Similarity & 02/03/2011 & EECS & Dr.M Schedl & Good & 1.5 \\
8&Making Sense of Sound and Music & 08/03/2011 & EECS & Dr. M. Plumbley & Good & 1 \\
9&Seeing and Understanding People & 21/03/2011 & EECS & Dr. R. Bowden & Good & 1.5 \\
10&Social Innovation Seminar & 29/03/2011 & QMUL & Dr. D. Helbing & Good & 1 \\
11&ARM Seminar & 31/03/2011 & EECS & Dr. J. Bongo & Good & 1.5 \\
15&Music research and engineering at the Echo Nest & 06/04/2011 & C4DM & Dr. B Whitman & Good & 1 \\
12&CompMusic: Computational Models for the Discovery of the World's Music & 07/04/2011 & C4DM & Dr. X Serra & Good & 1 \\
13&What are the properties of a musical sound that identify the family and register of the instrument? & 08/04/2011 & C4DM & Dr. R. Patterson & Good & 1 \\
14&Cooperative Music Applications & 20/04/2011 & C4DM & N. Cosgrove & Good & 1 \\
15&Entrepreneurship & 03/05/2011 & C4DM & Dr. H Seetzen & Good & 1 \\ 
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{table:seminars}
\end{sidewaystable}

\section{Participation in LI Sessions}

During my first year, I attended several personal and professional development courses provided by ESD (Learning Institute) and the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. The details of sessions attended are divided into three categories i.e. Specific Research Techniques, Communication and Presentation Skills and Generic Skills. The details of these sessions can be found in Tables \ref{table:li1}, \ref{table:li2} and \ref{table:li3} respectively.

\begin{table}
\caption{Specific Research Techniques}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{l l l l l l}
\hline\hline
Sr.\# &Training Topic & Date & Trainer& Proficiency & Hrs \\ [0.5ex]
\hline
1& How to get the best of your data & 15/12/2010 & C Philips & Good & 1 \\
2& IPR and Patents & 18/02/2011& Prof. C. Parini & Good & 1 \\
3&Teamwork for Researchers & 09/02/2011 & Dr J Cordy & Good & 6 \\
4& Managing Your PhD & 15/02/2011 &Dr S Hutchinson & Good & 6 \\
5&Detecting \& Deterring Plagiarism & 25/02/2011& Dr M Williamson & Good &3 \\
6&Critical Thinking & 01/03/2011 &Dr. G Martin & Good & 6 \\
7&Time Management for Researchers & 07/03/2011 &Dr J Cordy & Good & 3 \\
8&Writing for Publication & 09/03/2011 &Prof N Staines & Good & 3 \\
9&Reading Critically \& Analytically & 16/03/2011 & Prof N Staines & Good & 3 \\
10& Latex Tutorial& 30/03/2011 & E Benetos & Good & 2 \\
11&Creative Thinking & 20/05/2011 & Dr. K Byron & Good & 3 \\
12&Mindmapping \& Speed Reading & 08/04/2011 & Dr. D Creasy n & Good & 7 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{table:li1}
\end{table} 

\begin{table}
\caption{Communication and Presentation Skills}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{l p{5.7cm} l l l l}
\hline\hline
Sr.\# &Training Topic & Date  & Trainer  & Proficiency & Hrs \\
\hline
1& Developing your Personal Impact Enhancing Your Personal Presence & 15/12/2010 &Ms L Wright& Good &2\\
2& Minute Writing& 13/01/2011&Ms L Wright& Good & 3\\
3&Making a Poster Presentation &  18/01/2011& Dr S Hutchinson & Good & 3 \\
4& Promoting your Research Through the Media (S\&E/SMD)&  24/01/2011 & Dr. J Cordy & Good & 3\\
5& Communicating your Research - Public Engagement& 25/01/2011 &Miss A Fernandes & Good & 3\\
6& Technical Public Speaking & 22/02/2011 &Prof. C. Parini & Good & 1.5\\
7& Pronunciation \& Oral Skills for Overseas Researchers& 28/01/2011 &Ms. S Withers & Good & 2\\
8& Effective Networking & 01/04/2011 & Dr I Forristal & Good & 3\\
9& Training Your Voice for Teaching& 21/04/2011& Dr M Williamson & Good &6 \\
10& Negotiation and Assertiveness for Researchers & 03/05/2011&Dr J Cordy & Good & 3 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{table:li2}
\end{table} 

\begin{table}
\caption{Generic Skills}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{l p{5.7cm} l l l l}
\hline\hline
Sr.\# &Training Topic & Date & Trainer& Proficiency & Hrs \\ [0.5ex]
\hline
1& Health and Safety: Wellbeing \& Stress Awareness & 21/01/2011& Ms Z tunc & Good & 3\\
2& Evaluation of Teaching & 28/01/2011 & Dr. G Martin & Good & 3\\
3& Giving Feedback to Students & 24/04/2011& Dr. M Williamson & Good & 3\\
4& Interactive Teaching & 07/06/2011 & Dr. M Williamson& Good & 3\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{table:li3}
\end{table} 

\section{Other Work}

Conducted seminars on Business Information System course for undergraduate students. Also, assisted in Script Checking of Advanced Database Systems course for Masters and Undergrad students. Performed as an invigilator during Computer Architecture lab sessions.

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